Edalex Expands its Consulting Practice with Skills-First Services
Edalex expanded advisory capability leveraging years of deep expertise in designing and delivering skills-first solutions.
Edalex celebrates 10 years of innovation, connecting learning, skills and evidence in the global EdTech ecosystem
Edalex celebrates 10 years of innovation and impact, marking a decade of advancing learner-centric, skills-first solutions. From stewarding openEQUELLA to launching Credentialate, openRSD and SkillsAware, the award-winning EdTech company has helped connect learning, skills and evidence while empowering educators, employers and learners worldwide.
Edalex Celebrates Double Recognition at 2026 EdTech Cool Tool Awards: Credentialate Named Winner and SkillsAware a Finalist
Edalex has earned two honours at the 2026 EdTech Cool Tool Awards. Credentialate won in the Badging/Credentialing category, while SkillsAware was named a finalist in Professional Skills solutions, highlighting Edalex’s role in advancing a skills-first, data-driven ecosystem.
Skills for the Frontline: How Skills Visibility Addresses Equity
Frontline workers build immense expertise on the job, yet their skills often remain invisible to employers. This recognition gap is a fundamental equity issue. Community colleges are bridging this gap by replacing manual silos with AI-powered skills recognition. Using SkillsAware to surface and validate hidden competencies through conversational AI and Credentialate to issue evidence-backed Personal Evidence Records (PERs), institutions can turn “invisible experience” into verifiable, portable assets. This accelerates economic mobility and ensures opportunity is based on what a worker can actually do.
HSPA Deputy Principal Darren Ponman named one of ‘The Best Educators in Australia Influencing Culture and Reform’ by The Educator
Edalex congratulates Darren Ponman, Deputy Principal of Hunter School of the Performing Arts (HSPA), on being named one of The Educator’s Best Educators in Australia Influencing Culture and Reform 2025. Recognised for his visionary leadership, Ponman has pioneered a school-wide mastery learning system, the co-designed Learner Dashboard, and innovative AI tools—transforming education with transparency, technology, and a future-focused approach.
Elevating Your Digital Badges: Why My eQuals Users Need Credentialate
Credentialate enhances My eQuals Badges with verifiable skills, dynamic evidence, industry alignment, and automated workflows. Through the Personal Evidence Record, institutions can deliver richer, more meaningful digital badges that clearly articulate learner achievement.
Edalex partners with Learning Agents to enhance digital credentialing with Credentialate CanCred integration
Edalex and Learning Agents partner to integrate Credentialate with CanCred Factory, enhancing digital credentialing with secure, customisable Open Badges.
Education Design Lab’s XCredit, powered by Credentialate, named finalist in prestigious 2025 Learning Impact Awards from 1EdTech
Education Design Lab’s XCredit has been named a finalist in the prestigious 2025 Learning Impact Awards by 1EdTech. Developed through a collaborative effort between Education Design Lab, Edalex, SmartResume, Unicon, and Muzzy Lane, XCredit represents an innovative, scalable solution for validating real-world skills and empowering learners through interoperable credentialing.
Skills Imperative – Part 2: Are You Missing Out on Big Opportunities?
Evidence-backed skills recognition doesn’t just reduce risk – it unlocks powerful opportunities. From boosting retention to attracting lifelong learners and expanding into transnational education, institutions that validate and showcase learner competencies are seeing real impact. Learn how Credentialate and SkillsAware provide the infrastructure and tools to deliver, recognise, and scale skills-based learning across diverse learner groups.
Skills Imperative – Part 1: Are You Risking Irrelevance?
The value of a traditional degree is under scrutiny as learners seek direct pathways to employment. Institutions that resist skills recognition face shrinking enrolments, reputational damage, and lost market opportunities. AI may help, but it can’t replace the human expertise needed to define and validate real-world skills. Without action, the cost of doing nothing will only grow. Is your university ready to adapt—or at risk of being left behind?